English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bacule
(n.)
See Bascule.
Baculine
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
Baculite
(n.)
A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil
in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.
Baculometry
(n.)
Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or
staffs.
of Bid
Bad
(imp.)
Bade.
Bad
(superl.)
Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral;
injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the
opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad
health; bad crop; bad news.
Barren regions, especially in the western United States,
where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into
fantastic forms, and much intersected by caons, and where lack of wood,
water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country,
whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres
(bad lands).
compar. of Bad, a.
Badderlocks
(n.)
A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes
eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
Baddish
(a.)
Somewhat bad; inferior.
Bade
(imp.)
of Bid
A form of the pat tense of Bid.
Badge
(v. t.)
To mark or distinguish with a badge.
Badge
(n.)
A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a
window or the representation of one.
Badge
(n.)
A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the
person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
Badge
(n.)
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
Badgeless
(a.)
Having no badge.
Badger
(v. t.)
To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or
irritate persistently.
Badger
(v. t.)
To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.